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Hidden Bias of Accents
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We all like to think that we have no biases, especially when it comes to judging people, but whether you notice it or not, you probably have prejudices inside of you solely by listening to someone talk. The second someone starts talking, our brains start categorizing them and comparing them to past voices we have…
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The New Digital Dialect
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A relevant topic that I thought to myself about texting a message to my friends was how we communicate completely changes online. The way we talk is basically a whole new language that we all just collectively decided to learn and understand without declaring it. Anthropologists call this Computer-Mediated Communication, and it’s changing how we…
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Linguistic Determinism
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An interesting topic that I recently learned about in my AP Psychology class and struggled to comprehend at first was that of linguistic determinism. This psychological concept is the theory that the language we grow up speaking and thinking in determines and limits our knowledge and thought processes. When I first learnt about this, I…
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The World of Whistling Languages
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Today, I will be covering a different kind of language than I have previously, the world of whistling languages. In certain parts of the world, people communicate with what might seem like a simple call and response, but are in fact complete languages. By changing only the pitch and rhythm of whistles, speakers can express…
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Funeral Practices Around the World
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How Different Cultures Say Goodbye: Funeral Practices Around the World Death is something that every human society in history has had to deal with, but the ways we say goodbye to our loved ones couldn’t be more different depending on where you live around the world. Beliefs about the afterlife, death, and practicality influence these…
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Growing up in a Bilingual Household
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Growing Up with Two Languages: What Mixed Households Mean for Kids As someone who can say they grew up in a bilingual environment, but not a household, I wondered what I was missing out on. I would always go to other kids’ houses where both parents and children switched seamlessly between two languages mid-conversation and…
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How Indigenous Cultures Adapt to Globalization
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Hello everyone, this is officially my first blog post and I’m really excited to have a platform for all my thoughts. A topic that I always have found interesting is the uniqueness of indigenous cultures, and I’ve decided to make my first entry precisely about that. In today’s increasingly digitally connected world, it gets harder…
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Case Study of the Nacirema
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Today, I am going to examine the “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,” a paper published in the American Anthropologist back in 1956, by Horace Miner. This paper, while perhaps unassuming at first glance, is one of the most influential and valuable works of cultural anthropology, especially for students first learning about the field, making it…
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